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Classic Queen
by Matthew S. Robinson
Introducing each selection as if it were part of a true classical programme, former Jethro Tull key man David Palmer flayed and flitted around the conductor’s stand as members of the orchestra, chorus and singers like Natalie Choquette, Marie-Denise Pelletier and Luck Mervil laboured through a worthy concept run amok. Singing well-known songs as if reading ...
Remy Shand @ Quebec Summer Fest
by Matthew S. Robinson
As hundreds of blinking red diodes from Quebec Summer Fest access buttons lit up the field, Manitoba’s favorite soul man (soul boy?) ambled on stage and took his place behind his double racks of various keyboards and synths for an evening of youthful energy and experienced musical wisdom. From the repetitive warm-up groove of “Me and ...
Our Man in Montreal: The 23rd Montreal International Jazz Festival (Part 1-2)
by Phil DiPietro
Oh, sweet, hot, humid July--if Frank Constanza were a jazzhead he would have dubbed it the real month of “Festivus" the month of the International Jazz Fest. Mind-boggling possibilities abound for running up the credit card bill in such far-flung locales as Bracknell, Northsea, Paris, Nice, Viennes, Marseille, Toulon, Umbria and Montreaux. Let's see, which one ...
Our Man in Montreal: The 23rd Montreal International Jazz Festival (Part 2-2)
by Phil DiPietro
So, upon rising we took in a couple of Montreal’s more famous tourist attractions ( the Biodome , and the botanical gardens ). Now, rare is it that the wife and I get to spend time together without child, but tonight was the night. The usual activity when such opportunity arises is restaurants. The rarer “date ...
Borah Bergman & Thomas Chapin: Toronto 1997: A Suite for Thomas Chapin
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Death creeps upon us all. Thomas Chapin knew that rather well when in 1997 he appeared at Toronto's Du Maurier Downtown Jazz Festival with Borah Bergman. Dying on stage of leukemia, Chapin exhaled massively fractious and powerful liveliness from reeds and flute nonetheless. There are numerous struggles, limitations and even some clear misses in his performance; ...
Alive: Michael Brecker in Vancouver
by Gregory J. Robb
“Thank you for being here.” It was a lone voice in a lone moment but, considering the circumstance, the fan unwittingly summed up Michael Brecker’s concert in Vancouver on December 10. If this Michael Brecker was jet-lagged (“you have no idea...”), one would be frightened to watch him work out. The Michael Brecker Quintet woke ...
Oscar Peterson Trio: Vancouver, 1958
by AAJ Staff
Vancouver, 1958, a sequel to last year's Tenderly, documents a live performance toward the end of the lifespan of the early Peterson/Ellis/Brown trio, displaying the same patient warmth, outrageous swing, calculated calm, and lightning flashes that have always been essential to the Peterson sound.Some say Oscar Peterson is just a (highly capable) mechanic, and ...
Lee Konitz Concerts at the Montreal Jazz Festival
by Virginia A. Schaefer
As a Montreal Jazz Festival 2003 Invitation series artist, venerable alto saxophonist Lee Konitz played a different concert each night of July 2 through 5 at the Monument-National, a vintage theatre with excellent acoustics. To represent his musical career, Konitz selected favorite configurations of musicians with whom he enjoys performing. Konitz has worked with Montreal-based musicians ...
2003 Vancouver International Jazz Festival
by Gregory J. Robb
Day 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 Day One (June 20, 2003): In the next ten days, over 1700 musicians from all genre ...
Summer Montreal Jams
by Ed Hamilton
The summer months, preferably June and July, mark the beginnings of all jazz festivals in Canada stretching from Vancouver to Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, to even Quebec muscling into the festivals with their World Music Festival. In talking with jazz musicians whose bread is buttered with North American and European jazz festivals that ...
